Central government planners in Beijing love to issue ambitious national economic goals. Then powerful city governments, local state enterprises and entrepreneurs jostle chaotically, often creatively, for ways to turn the new rule to their advantage. Things can get untidy. China’s electric vehicle industry is now officially messy.

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Sonos, the biggest player in connected speakers, is jumping onto the voice control bandwagon.

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Flash crashes and rogue traders – there’ve been a few.  Most trading folk will recall the May 6 ‘flash crash’ in 2010 – also known as ‘The Crash of 2:45’ or simply the 2010 Flash Crash. Yet has anything been learned since then or even last August’s ETF flash crash in the US? Perhaps, but there is always room for improvement even if there is no silver bullet or sacred cow on hand.

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Police puppies would be a far safer, and more pleasant way to seek justice. Cartoon by Keith Knight.

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Poking disgruntledly at your Pebble, wishing that it was a Pebble Time 2? Scratch that upgrade itch with a just-released software update from Pebble.

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These palaeoanthropologists think news of Lucy the australopithecine’s cause of death is a tall tale short on evidence.

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